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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Yep, and that's fine. You're asking for value from two companies and have to pay both.
I don't disagree but there's just an unfortunate consequence on developers who now need their users to subscribe somewhere else to benefit from the app. Lots of users are picky about the individual dollars and cents of subscriptions, I could imagine enough might cancel to have a noticeable effect on the developer's revenue through no real fault of their own.
Why? You're getting value from that and it has an actual cost to reddit to run. Why shouldn't they get paid? Either directly (subscription) or indirectly (ads)
Because the current state of the API is intentionally designed such that the official reddit app has "benefits" third-party developers can't offer. There's been a lot of (IMO justified) concern as each new feature is added to the app but not the API that reddit wants to slowly starve out third-party apps and I don't think it's an unreasonable position that if reddit wants to be paid for access to the API, it should in return provide access without restrictions. They shouldn't be able to get away with trying to dispose of third-party apps while also asking you to pay for that privilege.
There's nothing here!